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Review: Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý

November 29, 2020

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Translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley (Sheffield, UK: And Other Stories, 2020) Early in Swedish author Andrzej Tichý’s fifth novel, Wretchedness, this reader had the sinking feeling that the narrative would be a latter-day, sentimental retrospective on drug addiction and … Continued

Review: The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård

May 4, 2020

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Translated from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (New York: World Editions, 2020) The Greek goddess Athena, born directly of a father into adulthood and having no mother, has never been a compromised figure displaying a lack of resolve or shying away … Continued

Review: The Sweet Indifference of the World by Peter Stamm

December 23, 2019

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Translated from German by Michael Hofman (New York: Other Press, 2020) The minimal-inducing fiction of Swiss author Peter Stamm, winner of the Hölderlin Prize and short-listed for the Man Booker, has been garnering attention from English readers since his first … Continued

A Review of Temper CA by Paul Skenazy

August 26, 2019

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(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2019) For a familial investigation of self-discovery preferring to simmer instead of boil, Paul Skenazy’s Temper CA, winner of the Miami University Press 2018 Novella Prize, conspicuously decides to extract its choice moments not through … Continued

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